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Eight people were shot in Oklahoma City Monday night just blocks from the Chesapeake Energy Arena as large crowds were leaving the Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers game, police said.

Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, is expected to step down this summer after a year in the job, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CNN early Tuesday.

A 21-year-old man was arrested in connection with the two-month-old disappearance of a California teen, authorities said.

The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial ended its third day of deliberations Tuesday, asking to take another look at two more exhibits in the case.

Calling the students an inspiration "to me ... the world," President Barack Obama urged Joplin High School graduates Monday to heed the lessons they've learned and spirit they've shown to rebuild not only their tornado-ravaged city, but their nation.

Three Drug Enforcement Administration agents are under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, a congressional source confirms to CNN.

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Bulgaria on Tuesday, about 14 miles outside the capital of Sofia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The U.S. Senate unanimously voted to tighten sanctions on Iran on Monday, three days after a dispute over including the threat of American force stalled the legislation.

The European financial crisis is poorly understood in the United States.

President Obama says Mitt Romney's record in business is "not a distraction" but central in the presidential election.

President Obama talks to the press after a NATO meeting in Chicago about ending the war in Afghanistan.

A mother of twins born 18 months after the death of the biological father lost her Supreme Court appeal Monday, and the children are not eligible for survival benefits under Social Security.

Protesters vowed to carry out disruptive demonstrations Monday in Chicago, a day after baton-wielding police clashed with demonstrators in a violent confrontation that left dozens injured just blocks from where NATO leaders were gathered.

President Obama called for NATO countries to sign off on his exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of the U.S.-led international military force by the end of 2014.

The troubled Archdiocese of Philadelphia said Monday that it has ousted two priests due to allegations of sexual abuse of minors.

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker says Obama's ads against Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital is now fair game.

When presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears before Latino small-business owners Wednesday, he'll address a group whose explosive birth rates foreshadow a seismic political shift in GOP strongholds in the Deep South and Southwest.

CNN's Tom Foreman tackles the increasing trend of the number of minority babies surpassing white babies in the U.S.

The climbers, hailing from four nations, died while coming down the southern slope of Mount Everest after reaching the 29,028-foot summit, officials said.

U.S. minorities now represent more than half of America's population under the age of 1, the Census Bureau said, a historic demographic milestone with profound political, economic and social implications.